Dr. Carl Rheins

"In this carefully nuanced and beautifully written biography of Leizer Bart and his wife Zenia Lewinson-Bart, the author provides us with keen new insight into the moral dilemmas faced by Jewish resistance members both within the Vilna ghetto and later in the Rudnicki Forest.

One important theme that runs throughout this new work is the role that membership in a prewar Zionist Youth movement such as the Hashomer Hatzair played in shaping the moral and political values of the 120 young men and women who eventually fought as Jewish partisans under the command of Abba Kovner."

--Dr. Carl Rheins, Executive Director YIVO Institute for Jewish Research